Page Two
THE CHATHAM BLANKETEER
December 21, 1934
Chatham Blanketeers of Elkin Plant
r
Reading left to right, front row: Hoyt Hambright, manager and
forward; Harvie Stockton, forward; Pete McBride, guard; Mounce,
forward. Standing, reading left to right: Ivory Johnson, center; Ab
Crater, forward; Edd Maxwell, guard; Charles Munday, center; John
Sappenfield, forward of the Winston Plant; Tat Davis, forward;
Avery Hanes, mascot. Dick Mackie absent from picture.
The L. H. C. Club of Winston
gave their annual Christmas pro
gram on Tuesday evening, Dec.
18, at Centenary church. The
program opened with the devo
tional exercise conducted by Mrs.
Henry Trotter, Jr., president of
the club. This was followed by a
piano solo by Miss Phylis Clapp-
The story of the other wise man
was told by Miss Agnes McDaniel-
Mildred Whitener, small daughter
of Mrs. Mae Whitener, read “En
tertaining a Caller.” Miss Mar
garet Bagby sang two beautiful
solos which were in keeping with
the Christmas season. The cli
max of the program was a three-
act play, “The Woodcutter’s
Christmas”, with the following
cast: Madie Austin, Nell Petree,
Irene Brendle, Earline Mayberry.
Versa Whitlock, Margaret Taylor
and Henry Lewis. Following the
program an exchange of gifts was
made among members of the club
and each member received a gif^
from Mrs. Thurmond Chatham.
The
Chatham Blanketeer
Editor-in-Chief Claudia Austin
Assistant ( Hoyt T. Hambright
Editors \ A. R. Plaster
Circulation j R. G. Chatham, Jr.
Managers ( Stauber Flynt
Chief Reporter John Sagar
f Leona Darnell
Club Reporters-A Bessie Gilliam
^ Madie Austin
Weaving Catherine Brarmon
Spinning & Carding
Pauline Morrison
Shop, Dye & Power Plant
Elizabeth Underwood
Spooling & Burling Fay Reavis
Wool Dept Pauline Masten
Napping & Wash Room
Dorothy Norman
Finishing Dept Hallie Ball
Shipping Dept Margaret Taylor
Night Force Earl Conrad
Old Mill Sherman Newman
Winston Office Roxie Bowen
Elkin Office....Marjorie Greenwood
Do Not Open
Until Christmas
With a sigh of happiness—and
relief—we welcome Christmas Day
as the truce to a month’s hustle
and bustle. For weeks, people
rush in and out of stores seeking
the most unusual gifts for rela
tives and friends. Then comes
the fun of wrapping. We connive
and contrive by superhuman feats
of magic to make magic little gift-
gadgets look their weight in dia
monds. At first, we spend hours
fussing for effects; latei’, we lim
it ourselves to fuming.
But it’s a month of excitement
that keeps a nation’s mind off its
troubles. In Nordic countries,
farmers and peasants spent their
off seasons making toys and other
gifts for Christmas. American
folk-crafters seem to prefer con
verting innocent looking objects
into alluring gift packages—many
of which receive almost as much
acclaim as the contents.
Gift wrapping, you know, is not
just a haphazard procedure. It’s
an art with its own yearly style
trends. People observe these
developments and sometimes even
contribute to them new ideas of
their own.
Cellophane first came into
prominence as a gift wrap largely
because people saw it as a novel
ty, a new effect. They came back
for more, year after year, as they
realized how easily it was utilized,
how striking and varied were the
effects produced, and how rea
sonable was its cost.
With the introduction of ribbon
made of cellophane gift wrapping
became more fascinating than ev
er. Each year clever new designs
in this tough, shiny ribbon at
tracted an increasingly larger
public, while the standard holiday
colors: red, green, blue, yellow,
and black, still held their own
position tenaciously.
This year the place of cello
phane has become so prominent
that leading gift package design
ers have developed a style ex
clusive to transparent wrapping
and tieing materials.
Pleating, a popular gift-wrap
ping tendency this year, offers an
interesting example. Pleating is
old, but in colored cellophane it
produced a smart new effect;
where the celloluse film is pleated
into more than one thickness, the
color assumes greater depth and
mellowness. This is given re
flected brilliance and relief by
intervening lighter tones. When
the clear, uncolored sheet is used,
the effect is pearly silver, mingled
with transparent flashes of
“moonlight.”
Another style note is the use of
black as a Christmas color, be
cause in cellophane it has sparkle
and brilhance. Any gift package
so wrapped and tied with silver-
foil ribbon of cellophane becomes
truly modernistic.
The grand essentials of happi
ness are: Something to do, some
thing to love, and something to
hope for.—Chalmers.
Christmas Morning
The Yuletide will soon arrive
with all its color and sparkle, its
friendliness and good cheer. We
can all picture the little fellow in
his sleeping suit looking with eag
er, wondering eyes at the bright
baubles and colorful packages
which represent Christmas. He
will not become aware for some
years of the deeper meaning of
the occasion. When he becomes
a youngster of school age, he will
suffer the disillusionment and a
bitter one it will be at the time—
of learning that Santa Claus is
just a myth. Later, upon attain
ing maturity, he will realize that
even a myth can be real, that the
patron saint of Christmas truly
exists, if you would have it so.
Probably no one has expressed
this thought better than an edi
tor of the old New York Sun. His
reply to a little girl who had been
told there was no Santa Claus,
and who wrote to, find out the
truth, has become a classic. It
was written in 1897. Often quo
ted, it is never trite. One para
graph will serve to illustrate the
point.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus. He exists as certainly as
love and generosity and devotion
exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life ils
highest bounty and joy. Alas, how
dreary would be the world if there
were no Santa Claus. It would
be as dreary as if there were no
Virginias. There would be no
childUke faith then, no poetry, no
romance to make tolerable this
existence. We should have no
enjoyment, except in sense and
sight. The eternal light with
which childhood fills the woric;
would be extinguished.”
L, H. C. Club of
Winston
L. H. C. Club of Elkin
The L. H. C. Club No. 1 met
at the Methodist church. Mrs-
R. B. Harrell gave a wonderful
talk on the appreciation of art.
The talk was enjoyed very much
because Mrs. Harrell told of the
famous artists and brought out
the fine points of art: the mean
ing of art, its beauty to the world,
and the peace that it brings to
mankind.
Mrs. Harrell stressed that the
whole universe is made up of art,
and for that reason should be
very interesting to all. Mrs. Har
rell also brought some of the fa'
mous paintings for us to observe.
Christmas Carols
The carol was originally a joY'
ous dance, a sign of liberation
from the religious austerity of
the puritan era. Percy Dearmar,
writing in “The Oxford Book of
Carols”, says: “The Carol, by for
saking the timeless contemplative
melodies of the church, began the
era of modern music, which
throughout has been based on the
dance.
“Your best friend, “said Emer-
.son, “is the one who can make
you do what you know you ought
to do.”